Most Expensive Insured Body Parts of Sports Athletes

Sports athletes are well aware of the injuries. So some of the them take a step further insured their body parts. Footballers mostly insured hands and legs because players mostly runs on the pitch a single tackle change their whole career scenario. Goal keepers in football insured their hands mostly they get hand injuries. Drivers from sports such as (Formula 1) insure head and hands in case of accident

Sports Athletes Insured Body Parts for Millions

Athletes

Insured Body Part

Policy Value

Current Status

Sports

Lionel Messi

Legs

€750 million

Active

Football

Troy Polamalu

Hairs

$1 million

Retired

NFL

David Beckham

Legs

$195 million

Retired

Football

Cristiano Ronaldo

Legs

€103 million

Active

Football

Mark McGwire

Ankle

N/A

Retired

Baseball

Manuel Neuer

Hands

$4.3 million

Active

Football

Merv Hughes

Moustache

$370,000

Retired

Cricket

Takeru Kobayashi

Stomach

$100,000

Unknown

Eating Competition

Joba Chamberlain

Right Arm

$5 million

Retired

Baseball

Felipe Massa

Head

$1 million

Active

Formula 1

Fernando Alonso

Thumbs

$13.3 million

Active

Formula 1

Iker Casillas

Hands

€15 million

Active

Football

Sam Bradford

Whole Body

$10 million

Active

NFL

#1: Lionel Messi : Insured body part (Legs):
He is among the best players in the world who created history with their extra ordinary performances. According to sources he insured his legs with a big backup money. So he might be paying (€500k – 700k) at the end of year for the policy his legs were estimated worth of (€750 million) currently. Now here you know how much valuable you are in sports.

#2: David Beckham : Insured body part (Legs):
David Beckham is one of the best footballers who retired in 2013, from football. According to sources Beckham protects him up to $195 million based on if his legs deteriorate. He got the largest policy as sports person in the world.

#3: Cristiano Ronaldo : Insured body part (Legs):
Cristiano Ronaldo well known for his dribbling skills and speed on the field. So as part of his football career, he feels that he should insure his legs for (€103 million). After joining Real Madrid allot new things changed in his career one of them is policy that his club set for him to protect their biggest star.

#4: Fernando Alonso : Insured body part (Thumbs):
Fernando Alonso one of the best drivers in Formula one. He won Formula one world championship consecutive time in (2005, 2006). He took policy on his own, the body part he insured is (thumbs) for ($13.5 million) which protects him in case anything happens to them.

#5: Sam Bradford : Insured body part (Whole Body):
If we talk most expensive insurance ever in NFL, then a name that comes on top of the list (Sam Bradford). He insured his overall body for $10 million. He took this policy to protect against horrific injury during his nfl career. This policy is taken by him during career with (Oklahoma).